- EDITOR’S CHOICE
- 2019 · Duo Brüggen-Plank
Composer · 1881 - 1955
George Enescu
- John M. Kuypers, George Enescu, University of Illinois Orchestra
- Darrell Umhoefer, Soo Han, All-State Philharmonic Orchestra
- Romanian National Radio Orchestra Bucharest, Nicolae Moldoveanu, Luiza Borac
- César Franck, Yehudi Menuhin, Felix Mendelssohn, Hephzibah Menuhin, Guillaume Lekeu, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Franz Schubert, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Béla Bartók, Karol Szymanowski, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Enescu, Robert Schumann, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Sir Edward Elgar
- Pavel Gintov, Tobias Borsboom, Dimitri Tchesnokov, Nare Karoyan, Ekaterina Litvintseva, Saskia Giorgini, Vincenzo Maltempo, Mattia Ometto, Mark Viner
Biography
George Enescu (1881-1955) was a gifted musician who was as proficient a composer and pianist as he was a great violinist. The stylistically varied nature of his compositions reflects his cosmopolitan life, spent primarily in Romania and France. His early music, including the popular Romanian Rhapsodies, use folk music, while his opera Oedipe features motivic development that stems from the influence of Austro-Germanic composers. Enescu's violin and cello sonatas and the string quartets combine elements of both, emphasizing the interplay of melodic lines, while his symphonies and piano music often have neo-classical and Impressionistic facets to them.